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• When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real.

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• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

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• Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

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• What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

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• Weaklings must lie.

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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

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• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept – and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

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• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

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• The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

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• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

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• Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

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• Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

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• Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

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• Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

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• Live your life and forget your age.

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• It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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• Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

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• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

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Jean Paul (52)

Birth:	21st March, 1763
Death:	14th November, 1825
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jean Paul was born in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany. He was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. He studied at the University of Leipzig. He wrote several novels include: Siebenkäs and Titan.

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